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Thou shall not kill: The constitutionality of death penalty under Nigerian legal system (2017)
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Duru, O. W., Nwafor, N. A., & Nwabachili, C. O. (2018). Thou shall not kill: The constitutionality of death penalty under Nigerian legal system. Issues in Legal Scholarship, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1515/ils-2017-0003

Two wrongs cannot make a right; there is hardly any justification for the continual use of capital punishment (death) as a form of punishment in Nigeria. This paper will canvass that, even though death penalty is a constitutionally permissible form o... Read More about Thou shall not kill: The constitutionality of death penalty under Nigerian legal system.